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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
I had mine today.

I left my boot in the parking lot

not both boots.

just one.

and drove all the way home before realizing i only had one.

now i have to buy new boots.

not necessarily gaper but pretty fuckin dumb.
haha.

hopefully im not the dumbest one out here.
post your gaper story and make me feel better =]
Jan 20 2009 12:48AM
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family_vacation
Posts: 6200 - Karma: 7,840
I was coming up to this big tall rail. As I hit the lip of the jump on I realized I had nowhere near enough speed. I thought that the rail was below nut height so I just sort of spreadeagled off the lip on and tried to ski with the rail between my legs. Unfortunately the rail was higher than crouch height so I nutted myself hard. It was one of those moments where the whole park gets quiet.
Mar 17 2009 10:46PM
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Beefcake
Posts: 378 - Karma: 10
happens all the time, when i go off a jump without the right speed or  maybe im just not feelin it or somethin ut i end up flailin like a mad man.
Mar 17 2009 10:48PM
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MatRich
Posts: 4789 - Karma: 1,813
hey mine is pretty simalar to the thread creator. I forgot my boots at home when I went to a big competition at the begining of the year. The freakin place was something like 2.5 hours away so I couldnt turn around. I had to stay at my friends cotage for two days without skiing or competing
Mar 17 2009 10:50PM
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GreenHorn
Posts: 4896 - Karma: 1,209
i was coming into the lift line and my friend was ahead of me. im goin faster than him and try and sneak by to get in the lift line, the orange fence was to my left and i thought i had plenty of room to make it between it and my friend. he suddenly turns left and totally cuts me off. i had no choice but to turn and try to slow down... too late. i crash through the fence and look like a total idiot.great...
Mar 17 2009 11:16PM
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ski93
Posts: 1280 - Karma: 84
a couple of years ago when i tried to get off the tbar i wasn't really paying attention and somehow the tbar got hooked under my jacket and when i tried to get off it kept on dragging me up the hill, it sucked

Mar 17 2009 11:43PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
I've left many things at home
Made many people fall over in lift lines
Mar 17 2009 11:55PM
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TYW
Posts: 125 - Karma: 3,096
1.Last year on the last day i was side slipping down to the starting area for this step up and caught an edge and broke my collar bone
2. This year i was lapping our park and i was at the top of the lift unloading and i caught my tips on the keep ski tips up sign(wow) went face first in the snow and they had to stop the lift and everything. That same day that same thing happened to me on the main life luckily that was at the halfway get off and the bar was down so i stayed on the lift.

EPIC FAIL.
Mar 18 2009 12:33AM
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TZA.
Posts: 1462 - Karma: 181
i was at blue mountain last weekend and i hit a rail slipped back back kicked my ski off and the brake didnt go down , went all the way down to the bottom of park and the head of park guy saw it he talked to me , but was super awesome and just told me to get it fixed
Mar 18 2009 12:41AM
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Mrvic.
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 154
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Mar 18 2009 12:42AM
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brian.walker
Posts: 885 - Karma: 1,160
I had the same problem as you, but only in a half pipe. So dropping in onto the wall i notice i cant set my edge and i just think oh its ice and keep going so i then pump into the wall and about half way up the wall my ski pops of and i do a nice penguin slide about 2 ft out and land back in the pipe and slide about 15 ft down. worst walk of shame yet even though everyone waiting to drop in liked it
Mar 18 2009 12:51AM
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punkrock32
Posts: 1183 - Karma: 21
Exact same thing happened to me about 3 weeks or so ago.  The zipper got stuck for some reason right as i was getting off, and i ended up just ripping the zipper off my jacket.  My jacket no longer zips (the teeth are mostly ripped out as well), so I ride with it open all the time now.
Mar 18 2009 2:11AM
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punkrock32
Posts: 1183 - Karma: 21
Double post, but I thought of another one.  I managed to hit a tree at Keystones park last year.  there was a spine with corrugated pipe laid on its side at the top, between two trees.  On the backside of this was a tree of all things, but I didn't realize the tree was there.  I came in and did a handdrag/handplant to switch over the backside of the spine, banged the landing and as I was turning my head over my left shoulder to look downhill, I got smoked by the tree that was on the other side of the spine.  I still have no idea why they set up a spine with a tree in the way of the landing on the backside...  
Mar 18 2009 2:22AM
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T-Holt
Posts: 5020 - Karma: 639
I was skiing opening weekend at Sugarbush and I messed up a butters so I was a little pissed, so I went to pop a 180, but I got kicked backed too far and fell.  All right under the lift.
Mar 18 2009 12:22PM
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P.opsicle
Posts: 478 - Karma: 29
Was just hanging out talking to a friend, And was off balence just fell for no reason
Mar 18 2009 6:20PM
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Armegadon
Posts: 153 - Karma: 11
he looks like mario...
Mar 18 2009 6:23PM
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mellifluous
Posts: 1682 - Karma: 68
i was riding switch one time and in my transition one of my poles just got stuck in the ground and then kinda catapulted and went flying.. i was riding with one pole for the rest of the afternoon
Mar 18 2009 6:29PM
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mellifluous
Posts: 1682 - Karma: 68
i was riding switch one time and in my transition one of my poles just got stuck in the ground and then kinda catapulted and went flying.. i was riding with one pole for the rest of the afternoon
Mar 18 2009 6:29PM
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thisandthatfilms
Posts: 7714 - Karma: 526
dropped both my poles and both gloves off a lift.


kill me....
Mar 18 2009 6:36PM
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~~JEFF~~
Posts: 1045 - Karma: 301
The other weekend I wasn't used to my longer pow poles and had been using my park ones more so i was used to being able to get off the lift with them still on the seat between my legs and just sliding them out, well i tried to do this with longer poles and with all the extra pole length out the back of the seat, they didn't come out all the way and when i got off the lift I was hanging on my nuts by my poles off the lift before I rolled off, I looked back and both poles were bent 90 degs. When I bent beack they just snapped, (as usual). I defenitly felt like a goon.
Mar 18 2009 6:37PM
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the.hellion.
Posts: 861 - Karma: 698
Not going to lie, I have been waiting all day to post to this one. So they're long. And there are three of them.

1:
So, I'm teaching this group of kids how to do 360s on snow. You know edge control that kinda dealy. We're hanging out on flats and I'm just spinning round and round and one of my buddies starts talking to me, so I just kind of ride switch for a while and then ka-blam. As I was trying to turn back around one of my kids had stopped and I ran into her. I fell, she did not. She was six. I was in uniform.

2:
So, again I'm with this group of kids. It was an Ontario powder day (wooo maybe 3 inches !!!) We were doing sideslipping right under the chair. It was kind of warm the snow was kind of sticky and I have a sweet line, just totally in my own head, dreaming of sliding down a nice rail, flat skis, weight forward and ... smash. My downhill edge caught I go arse over teakettle in uniform (again) with all my kids laughing at me from behind. My pole poked me in the buttcheek leaving a bruise and I had mad skiers thumb for the next week too.

3: (last one)
So, this was back when I first got my twins, my buddy and I decided to visit our park friends. (Ex-racer, it was a big deal) We were both super sketch in the park and so we decided to just check things out. We're booking along down just looking at all the pretty featurers, talking and not paying attention. And then my buddy just starts screaming. My skis start going uphill, really quickly really steep and then I realized why she screamed, popped of a jump I had no idea was there hollered at the top of my lungs (huge girly scream too) spread eagled mid-air landed and skied right out of the park redfaced. It took me another year before I went in again.

DONE. sparknotes: I'm a gaper.
Mar 18 2009 8:08PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
i tried to butter on snowblades.....
Mar 18 2009 8:15PM
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whistlerpow
Posts: 115 - Karma: 10
i was skiing the whistler peak fully fresh on my sumos (with bent brakes for bindings). take a drop, my left ski ejects and i stack it, then the ski rolls down the whole face. i had to monoski down a fresh open bowl for like 5 mins. i wanted to die.
Mar 30 2009 7:12AM
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OhMyBosh
Posts: 5056 - Karma: 171
I was sitting on the heels of my bindings racing someone and i was infront of them so i was waving my poles about on the snow so he got snow in his face... then my pole proceeded to catch in the snow and the grip hit me in the face... bailed, caught my tip in the snow and tweaked my knee... fail...
Mar 30 2009 8:54AM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
BEST.
Mar 30 2009 10:06AM
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IanAvery-Leaf
Posts: 9932 - Karma: 9,411
Hahhaha how did that go?
Mar 30 2009 10:11AM
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Uncle.Badness
Posts: 2545 - Karma: 55
I have two

1. I was attempting a nose butter 5 and when I was coming around to 5 I slam into a lift tower.

2. I was doing a mute 3 off like a 40ish table and my edge got caught on the lip throwing my forward and I do like a superman dive into the table.
Mar 30 2009 11:27AM
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twin-tip-hero
Posts: 2896 - Karma: 277
so there was this huge group of kids from my school that i was trying to impress, and they were all standing by the side of the jump. so i act all cool and they think if you can go off a jump you are a god, so i decide to just do a simple 3. Im acting all confident, and confident. So i'm going off the jump and in mid air my friend yells out WATCH OUT THERES A KID THERE! so i flip out and start flailing my arms and legs, and when i come down my tip digs into the knuckle and my pole plants and i smack my mouth in to the pole. i was spitting blood everywhere, and y lip had swollen p to the size of a golfball. It sucked so much, but yet i was still a god in the eyes of my classmates. and now the kid that yelled at me, we now have a code to make it sound like i was doing a sick double corked 1080, to make it sound like i was not such a loser.
Mar 30 2009 11:53AM
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carbon.pulse
Posts: 3348 - Karma: 22
I had mine today. Was trying to get on the chair going through the automatic gates. Thought i had heaps of time to get through them. Halfway through they close and clip me making me catch an edge and fall right in front of some lifties on their break. Not fun.
Mar 30 2009 12:10PM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
tried to 270 onto an up flat rail....only to faceplant right on the rail under the lift at sunapee. got a fat lip and a scuff on my goggles. fun.
Mar 30 2009 12:35PM
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Oli_jgb
Posts: 985 - Karma: 95
Okay so a couple of years ago I broke a binding riding switch, ripped it up on the break which was dodgy anyway. So whilst that was being repaired they gave me a pair of really dodgy flimsy noodle skis (don't remember what they were).
Anyway I was REALLY hungover and i cruised down the first run quite quick, came to stop at the chairlift but god knows why but I ended up turning instead of stopping, and skied at about 20 mph straight into the barrier and flipped over it. Fuck knows how i didn't break both of my femours, but i was sent flying and had to be pulled by my heels back from underneath the chairlift. Was a big LOL moment for everyone except me (at first)

I loled about 5 minutes later once bruises started appearing!


Mar 30 2009 3:51PM
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Brock.
Posts: 5698 - Karma: 1,332
those times when you are in the lift line and its like a 4 person chair but youve got 5 people lined up and then you end up getting your own chair and everyone looks at you like a fuckhead.
Mar 30 2009 4:28PM
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fillup
Posts: 4904 - Karma: 568
I was hitting the public park on the glacier at whistler.

The last jump had a big lip and me thinking it was going to be bigger then the rest didnt speed check of anything. Overshot soooo hard, fell pretty far to flat. Bruised both my heels and jp auclair and shane had to help me. It was sooo painful but such a pussy injury.


Mar 30 2009 4:40PM
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LauraHorgus
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i think i was about 8 years old, first time skiing at this place and i'm on the lift with my sis, on our way to the top. we're comin up to a midway point (LOAD ONLY!!) and all i see after it is this giant steep-ass face that i'm like, wtf i can't ski down that shit... so i turn to my sister, i'm like, "megan we HAVE to get off, let's go go go go, now now now!!!" yeah just freaking out, not having a clue that yes, in fact there are more runs at the top than just the face, lol... so we're a good 10 or 12 feet past the load zone, probably a good 14 or 15 feet in the air when i just go for it, because for whatever reason i think i'm gonna die if i go all the way to the top. yeah the liftie was like "DUDE are you okay?!?!" with what actually seemed to be some portion of concern but mostly just laughing his ass off while the rest of the people waiting in line gave me a round of applause. for some reason, at the time i didn't think it was too funny... haha but i got over it and ended up getting back on anyway to meet my sis up there. shiiiiiit...
Mar 30 2009 7:02PM
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TheHamburglar
Posts: 3895 - Karma: 3,317
a true gaper cut me off on a booter and rolled over the lip with very little speed, i was already in the tranny and had to do the same to not land on top of him
Mar 30 2009 7:48PM
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klingisking
Posts: 802 - Karma: 925
nollie=double ejection
Mar 30 2009 7:51PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7841 - Karma: 22,153
when I started skiing I was that tall lanky awkward 13 year old with rental skis, boots, poles (or not) and helmet, and a hoodie and jeans or raptors jacket and Sears snowpants.
Mar 30 2009 8:00PM
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OhMyBosh
Posts: 5056 - Karma: 171
happened to me doing a nose butter...



i was teaching skiing and i just got my bindings mounted again, forgot to check my dins.... one of the kids in my group asked me if i could do one after he saw some other guy in the park do it...
double ejected land on both my knees at the same time, which i have already fucked up completely... could barely finish the day and had to spend the rest of the night with icing the shit out of them.
Mar 30 2009 8:02PM
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eastAR5
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um 2 summers ago working at Windells..... big morning session going down on the green downrail. I come in for a 270 on, fuck the timing up completely, catch my tip, double eject to scorpion on the end of the rail , massive yard sale... i finish wiping the snow out of my eyes and hair and picking up all my shit, Mr. superstar Wallisch comes down and lip 450 on 270 off first try. Owned.
Mar 30 2009 8:35PM
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KFRADtheLaxBro
Posts: 632 - Karma: 10

My ski came off just as i was getting on the cair lift. I jumped off real quick to get it and ended up holding up the line. P.S. the sign that says keep tips up is there for a reason.

Mar 30 2009 8:48PM
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SNOWLARBLADER
Posts: 29 - Karma: 10
Thats what i tell people dude... damn kids should take after me. I use poles with my blades so I am always super steezy!
Mar 30 2009 8:57PM
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Pee_and_Ski
Posts: 1869 - Karma: 57
i landed switch of a little jump, turned around then put my shin through some kids boot that was standing in the landing
Mar 30 2009 8:58PM
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Oli_jgb
Posts: 985 - Karma: 95
Pretty impressive to be honest! My first chairlift experience (about 5 years old) was less impressive, I just couldn't stay on and ended up landing in a pool of slush about 5-10 foot in the air so not high at all.

I was soaked and had to go buy a new one piece!
Mar 31 2009 3:59AM
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shea.
Posts: 1606 - Karma: 193

I was teaching my GF to ski cause she never really has b4. we have this one section of the resort that is like a seperate begginers area which is full of gapers and asians. anyway i sent her up the jbar b4 me so if she fell off i could stop and help her. i must admit its fun being on the bunny hill and being the best there so i was playing around and like sliding up the jbar sideways, pretending i was on a box or rail when BAM i caught my front edge and went face first in the snow, but i got caught with the jbar in between my legs which dragged me up the slopes an extra 30 ft mayb. then the lift stopped me right infront of a bunch of gaper snowboarders and i felt like the biggest idiot have to ski bak down and line up again

Mar 31 2009 4:16AM
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sarahskis
Posts: 1587 - Karma: 41

This thread is the best way to spend some time laughing.

The other day I was skiing from my house to the chairlift, and you have to cross a wooden bridge that is ever so slightly uphill. So i started to skate a little, and caught my right ski in one of the rungs of the bridge. I went flying forward, my ski fell off and fell into the slushy mess below, and I had to scale the bridge to get my ski out of the water. I felt like such an ass

Mar 31 2009 6:04AM
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Oli_jgb
Posts: 985 - Karma: 95
I would quite enjoy having sex with you sarah skis.
Mar 31 2009 7:41PM
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mmmmm...Pie
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A similar thing happened to me... My binding was a little loose so when I went to 180 to switch, one ski stayed on and the other didn't. I failed to notice this, so I land with both feet and my ski-less boot digs into the snow and causes me to fall flat on my back. All of this right under the lift too...

Mar 31 2009 8:03PM
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spotter487
Posts: 462 - Karma: 12
wtf?
Apr 1 2009 1:23AM
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Jesus-FlwrSubaru
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 53
Early season, I was just messing around in the park getting used to being on skis again, and i popped a lil' 180 off a jump, when landed i kept looking at the knuckle not minding what the landing looked like, then all of a sudden i hit a slow sign. Some moron ski patroler put a slowsign on the flat right behind the landing.
Apr 1 2009 2:40AM
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Oli_jgb
Posts: 985 - Karma: 95
Apologies, I was pretty wrecked last night! - that was a gaper moment!
Apr 1 2009 4:53AM
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sarahskis
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not quite sure how to answer that. thanks?

Apr 1 2009 5:19AM
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